‘’Ah, uhm, yeaaaah, maybe.’’ Developing a New Data Collection Instrument to Explore the Gendered Realisation of Refusals by Young Adult Speakers of Irish English
Presenting the development of a specifically created data collection tool, the online spoken discourse completion task (OSDCT), this study aims to shed light on how young adult Irish-English speakers aged 20-30 realise refusals and the factors which influence linguistic choice. The novel OSDCT was...
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Presenting the development of a specifically created data collection tool, the online spoken discourse completion task (OSDCT), this study aims to shed light on how young adult Irish-English speakers aged 20-30 realise refusals and the factors which influence linguistic choice. The novel OSDCT was created using Google Forms and the Mote browser extension. Eight situationally controlled audio prompts eliciting refusals were recorded onto the form. The 18 participants (9 male and 9 female) responded orally to the prompts by recording their own audio response via the Mote browser extension. The use of the OSDCT resulted in more natural responses and facilitated the consideration of both linguistic and paralinguistic features. The oral-based nature of the tool highlighted, in particular, the prominence of (para)linguistic modifiers such as elongations, pauses, tuts and dysfluencies as pragmatic phenomena present in refusals. The results indicate that the social need to avoid threatening face played a greater role than gender in realising the speech act of refusal; however, gender-based differences emerged when the age of the prompter was taken into account.
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| spelling | doaj-art-b4a82deda70940aaa06dc822100b82f42025-02-06T21:39:40ZengThe Irish Association for Applied LinguisticsTeanga: The Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics0332-205X2565-63252024-11-0131‘’Ah, uhm, yeaaaah, maybe.’’ Developing a New Data Collection Instrument to Explore the Gendered Realisation of Refusals by Young Adult Speakers of Irish EnglishEimear O'Riordan0Anne Marie Devlin1University College Cork, IrelandUniversity College Cork, Ireland Presenting the development of a specifically created data collection tool, the online spoken discourse completion task (OSDCT), this study aims to shed light on how young adult Irish-English speakers aged 20-30 realise refusals and the factors which influence linguistic choice. The novel OSDCT was created using Google Forms and the Mote browser extension. Eight situationally controlled audio prompts eliciting refusals were recorded onto the form. The 18 participants (9 male and 9 female) responded orally to the prompts by recording their own audio response via the Mote browser extension. The use of the OSDCT resulted in more natural responses and facilitated the consideration of both linguistic and paralinguistic features. The oral-based nature of the tool highlighted, in particular, the prominence of (para)linguistic modifiers such as elongations, pauses, tuts and dysfluencies as pragmatic phenomena present in refusals. The results indicate that the social need to avoid threatening face played a greater role than gender in realising the speech act of refusal; however, gender-based differences emerged when the age of the prompter was taken into account. https://journal.iraal.ie/index.php/teanga/article/view/7704Online spoken discourse completion taskIrish Englishrefusalsgenderage(para)linguistic modifiers |
| spellingShingle | Eimear O'Riordan Anne Marie Devlin ‘’Ah, uhm, yeaaaah, maybe.’’ Developing a New Data Collection Instrument to Explore the Gendered Realisation of Refusals by Young Adult Speakers of Irish English Teanga: The Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics Online spoken discourse completion task Irish English refusals gender age (para)linguistic modifiers |
| title | ‘’Ah, uhm, yeaaaah, maybe.’’ Developing a New Data Collection Instrument to Explore the Gendered Realisation of Refusals by Young Adult Speakers of Irish English |
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